7 Kids Crafts: Spread a Little Holiday Cheer

Hello Everyone!


I hope you all are having a great day. For this card I mixed some digi, clear and rubber stamps. First I printed Emaline's gift (Sweet November vault digi stamp) on Kraft Cardstock because I find it easy to color with my Polychromos pencils.  I also printed another one of her the same size on basic printer paper so I can create a mask.

After fussy cutting that mask I used some daubers to color in the background with Distress Oxides and the snow at the ground was with ColorBox Frost White. You can probably hit that with the heat gun but because of my erratic schedules I just set it aside and worked on it the very next day. All of the inks were completely dry, and I felt it needed a little more of something.

I realized that I had purchased this Snowy Afternoon Flakes stamp by Studio Light from the 7 Kids Crafts. I was afraid that I wouldn't get a good impression but the impression was pretty good. I stamped it with  StazOn Pigment Snowflake. I did mess up on my card though. LOL I'll show you my practice paper so you can see how good it stamped on the very first try and then I'll explain what I did wrong on my final card. Hopefully you won't make the same mistake as me or if you do how you can disguise the little accident. (My kids say "Happy little Oops" that they learned from their art teacher or maybe it's a "Happy Little Accident" as Bob Ross would say. haha 

Yes, I keep pieces of scratch cardstock and reuse them because I don't like to waste my  paper...

Can you see? That was just one stamp and I didn't have to condition the stamp at all. The paper was nice and flat but on my card I had a slight shift on the snowflakes because my paper was slightly curved and I should have used a washi tape to hold it down. The stamp is large and covers about

5.5 x5.5 so I couldn't use a magnet on the top of the card. So my suggestion is to use washi tape

but as I mentioned before I failed to do that part. 

Here you can see that I was trying to hold it down as I was trying to put the stamp press on it

and it's where I should have used the washi tape instead. 

I didn't mention that I did cut a piece of paper

to a rounded shape so I can cover the face. I know snow goes everywhere but because I put so much emphasis on her little facial features I didn't want to cover them up with snowflakes. 

To try to fix my error I tried to use a Sakura Gellyroll Clear star to hide some of the flaws in the snowflakes that I messed up on. It's not too noticeable now. The sentiment stamp is from The Greeting Farm, and the cursive writing I wrote myself because I felt there was too much negative space. 

Anyway, that was too much rambling on my behalf. I hope you learned something and I hope you like the card even though there are human errors on it. LOL  

Thank you so much for stopping by, in a couple of days Sweet November Stamps will have a brand new release. All I can say is that is Halloween-ish. heehee

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Thank you,

Katya Bess 

7 Kids Crafts: Happy Birthday

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Just wanted to share my latest birthday card. I haven't made too many 6x6 cards this year but I wanted to add lots of birthday balloons to make the card look more festive. (the balloon dies are from a CC Designs that I purchased a long time ago and name is not on the insert) The Happy Birthday die and the stamp are both from The Greeting Farm. You can find the clear stamps from the Miss Anya Samoyed set here. The birthday die cut I used is Happy Birthday and I loved it because it was smooth cut without me having to trim off edges or fussy around with it and it's also on a good deal. The fun papers are from Doodlebug 6x6 pads: Fairy Tales and the other one is called dot-grid-daisy-strope rainbow petite prints

Miss Anya Samoyed 

Happy Birthday

I colored the image with copic markers and stamped

the dress and bow on one of the Doodlebug 6x6 papers: Fairy Tales pad

because I thought it was a cute and festive for a party or birthday dress. 

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Thank you for stopping by.

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Boo is Helping out

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I know it has been a while since I posted. I'm hoping that in the next few days I can catch up and post a few more cards or Artist Trading Cards for you all to see.

For this card I wanted to do a big mash up of images from Sweet November Stamps. I used a mermaid called Treasure (I believe she was a vault image), I cropped her and I drew a long skirt and for her arms and torso I just colored it both dark gray and black to give her that corset look with a long sleeve shirt. I used Free Witches Hat (literally it's currently free $0.00), I used Boo's Pumpkin and Tabitha (which comes in a set.)

Treasure (vault image)

Free Witches Hat

Boo's Pumpkin 

Tabitha 

I colored everything with Copic markers except the "gold metallic marker pen"

Here's a little background on Boo's Pumpkin: "This darling little specter can be found haunting the pumpkin patch every October night leading up to Halloween. He is searching for only the biggest and best pumpkins out there because those special gourds make for ideal jack o'lantern carving."

When I first saw Boo, I knew I wanted to put him in a scene helping out mom. I didn't want him to actually be a ghost but to be dressed up as one for Halloween. I chose Treasure to be the Mom because she looks as if she's ready to catch the big pumpkin, as Boo is bringing it to the front door. I also loved the way her hair is flowing and you can tell it's a windy autumn day. I used my own door as reference (it's actually not wood nor that color lol) but I wanted an open door. Then I added a brick siding in various Yellow-Reds and Earth tones.  Oh yea, I colored little curious Tabitha as a black tuxedo kitten sneaking next to Treasure to see what is going on. I hope you enjoy this card as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Here are some of the Copic markers I used:

E00, E11, R20, 

Hair: C9, C7, YG07, YG67 

Eyes: YG07, YG67

Lipstick: RV19, RV99

Outfit: FV2, BV17, T6, T8

Kitten: C7, C5, C4

Ghost: C1, C0, RV00

Bricks: E97, E99, E04 

Wood: E17, E59, E18
Pumpkin: YR04, YR24
Metal accessories and hardware: Gold Metallic Craftwork Pen 

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Katya Bess

Entering card at:

https://cccdigicreations.blogspot.com/2019/09/challenge-107-for-child.html

7 Kids Crafts: Rowena

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I hope you've been having fun with these little Wee images. For today's card I'm showing Witchwee Rowena you can get her in a bundle here: Bundle Rowena, Tabitha, Jack O'Lantern and Half Moon

Here's a little background on Rowena and friends by Amy Young:

Rowena loves to spend crisp autumn nights snuggled up against her black cat familiar, Tabitha. Together they enjoy the glow and warmth of a happy jack o'lantern as they dream beneath a harvest moon.

I wanted to give her green skin because I had The Wizard of Oz on my mind. This could be before The Wicked Witch of the West became so mean. LOL Also, with the green skin I hope I didn't make her look so much like Yoda, because I kept thinking of him too. haha The sentiment is from a retired Kraftin' Kimmie stamp set that I thought went perfectly with her demeanor. I did a combination of marker and pencil. For a the base layer I color her skin, the pumpkin and the sky in Spectrum Noir, the I colored with Polychromos pencils on Kraft Cardstock. For the Skirt I first colored in dark blue and then I used a color shift paint that goes from purple to blue. I wanted to set her in a pumpkin patch... and most pumpkin patches that I've been to have hay all over the ground.

Rowena, Tabitha, Jack O'Lantern and Half Moon - Bundle

I love that she looks relaxed and unbothered at all. 

Polychromos:

Permanent Green, Deep Cobalt Green, Black, Rose Carmine,

White, Black, Burnt Umber, Burnt Siena, 

Burnt Ochre, Brown Ochre

Thank you so much for visiting. 

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Fauna Meadowdancer Artist Trading Coin

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Just wanted to share some of the details for the Artist Trading Coin I created on Facebook live at
7 Kids Customers Create! Facebook page you can check out this video here: Facebook Live Fauna Meadowdancer ATCoin This was my very first Facebook live but I wanted to do something to help celebrate 7 Kids Crafts' anniversary.

To start, I used is digital stamp Fauna Meadodancer by Sweet November Stamps. I reduced the size and cropped her so I can fit her into an Artist Trading Coin size which is a 2 and half inch circle. In this case for the 2 and half inch circle I used a punch from Recollections. The wings I used were from a clear stamp set called Fairy Mouse by Pink Ink Designs - that set is no longer available in the shop but there are other sets from the same company available that have wings you can use, such as this one: BEE-utiful.

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Fauna Meadodancer by Sweet November Stamps 

Fairy Mouse by Pink Ink Designs

Polychromos:

Skin: White, Cold Grey VI, Warm Grey IV, Black, Dark Flesh or Rose Carmine

Eyes: White, Cadmium Yellow, Burnt Ochre, Burn Umber, 

(Copic mulitliner Black or Polychromos color pencil Black for the pupil)

Cadmium Yellow, Sakura Gelly Roll - White for catch lights or eyelights.

Lips: Madder and White 

Flower/Leaf: Permanent Green, Cadmium Yellow, Dark Cadmium Yellow and White

Wings: White, Dark Flesh, Light Cobalt Turquoise, DecoArt Galaxy Glitter (glue)

Hair: (I didn't keep track of my Spectrum Noir marker colors but I used a Red and a Dark Grey) 

White, Madder, Cadmium Yellow

Background: Cadmium Yellow, (Spectrum Noir marker a mid to dark green)

Hookers Green

Here is the full set of Artist Trading Coins.

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Katya Bess